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Hella unlikely they were used to knit gloves

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's the thing. You said "nålbinding is knitting."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies knitting, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls nålbinding knitting. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "knitting family" you're referring to the hobby of weaving, which includes things from crochet to macramé to plaiting.

So your reasoning for calling nålbinding knitting is because random people "call fabric crafting knitting?" Let's get felting and tatting in there, then, too.

Also, calling something knitting or weaving? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. Nålbinding is nålbinding and a member of the knitting family. But that's not what you said. You said a nålbinding is knitting, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the knitting family knitting, which means you'd call macramé, plaiting, and other weaving methods knitting, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?